7/5/2023 0 Comments The matrix groff![]() ![]() ![]() After a long sulk, Marie rouses herself to examine the abbey’s disastrous ledgers, mount her warhorse, and gallop forth to turn out the family most egregiously squatting on convent land. The sisters hang the traveler’s clothes in the communal privy, where “the ammonia of the piss kills the beasties”-the lice. But in the first chapter, the queen rids the court of an ungainly, rustic Marie by installing her in a remote English convent, home to 20 starving nuns. A matrix, which comes from the Latin for mother, builds implacably between Eleanor and Marie. Groff gives her a fraught, lifelong, sexually charged tie to Eleanor of Aquitaine. Seventeen years old, in the cold March drizzle, Marie who comes from France.” The inspiration is a historical figure, Marie de France, considered the first woman to write poetry in French. ![]() Set in early medieval Europe, this book paints a rousing portrait of an abbess seizing and holding power.Īfter the spicy, structurally innovative Fates and Furies (2015), Groff spins back 850 years to a girl on a horse: “She rides out of the forest alone. ![]()
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